Hepatitis B and non-A, non-B in a Swedish blood center during 10 years of HBsAg screening.
In spite of routine screening for HBsAg by a sensitive radioimmunoassay, some cases of posttransfusion hepatitis B still occur. The frequency in the Gothenburg Blood Center is 1 clinical case per 10,000 bloods units transfused. About the same incidence has been noted for clinically overt cases of hepatitis non-A, non-B. In contrast to findings reported by others, the latter incidence has been rather stable over the last 5 years.
D001782:Blood Donors; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006525:Hepatitis, Viral, Human / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D013548:Sweden
D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens